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put the wind up
vs
scare the living daylights out of
put the wind up
verb
To frighten or disturb.
scare the living daylights out of
verb
To scare something or someone to a large degree.
How often have the words
put the wind up
and
scare the living daylights out of
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)